[790] For examples see Post, Familienrecht, 258; idem, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 452.
[791] Ibid., I, 452.
[792] Here the man divorces his wife by cutting in two a piece of "Rindenstoff, von dem er eine Hälfte behält und eine Hälfte dem Vater der Frau zuschickt."—Post, loc. cit.
[793] Möllendorff, Das chin. Familienrecht, 33; Post, op. cit., I, 452.
[794] Post, Familienrecht, 259.
[795] Post, Afrikanische Jurisprudenz, I, 453.
[796] In the Indian Archipelago a priest is necessary, for instance, on the islands of Gorong and Seranglao; among the Buginese; as also with the Makassars, where he receives 3 gulden for his trouble: Post, Familienrecht, 259, 260.
[797] So in case of divorce among the Omahas, where, as Dorsey believes, "father-right has succeeded mother-right," the woman cannot take the children with her if the man is unwilling; although in practice they "are sometimes taken by their mother, and sometimes by her mother or their father's mother."—"Omaha Sociology," III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 225, 262.
In China a divorce completely dissolves the marriage; the woman returns to her family, if it will receive her; the children remain with the father; and the purchase price is returned to him, unless his conduct has caused the divorce. When her family declines to receive the woman she becomes sui juris: Möllendorff, Das chin. Familienrecht, 34.
[798] See chap. i, 21 ff., above.